2021 Book Roundup

I had a pretty great reading year even if the year itself was not quite so spectacular off the page. (You can probably relate.) I continued to read a lot of comics in 2021 as well as a lot of nonfiction intermixed with some literary fiction sprinkled here and there. But rather than just talk about what I read, let's get to the list! (And maybe I'll post more regularly this year starting with my 2021 DNF post. *fingers crossed*)

1. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
2. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
3. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
4. Fox Tossing: And Other Forgotten and Dangerous Sports, Pastimes, and Games by Edward Brooke-Hitching
5. Single. On Purpose: Redefine Everything. Find Yourself First. by John Kim
6. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
7. Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
8. My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
10. Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by Ryan North 
11. Bury my Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge
12. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
13. Crooked House by Agatha Christie
14. Spring by Ali Smith
15. A Tiger Like Me by Laura Watkinson, Joelle Tourlonias, & Michael Engler
16. The Vision Vol 1: Little Worse Than a Man by Tom King, et. al.
17. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
18. House of M by Brian Michael Bendis
19. Avengers: Vision and the Scarlet Witch: A Year in the Life by Richard Howell et. al.
20. The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
21. Star Trek: The Stardate Collection Vol 1 by Scott Tipton et. al. 
22. Star Trek: The Stardate Collection Vol 2 by Scott Tipton et. al. 
23. Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
24. Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire 
25. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunately Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
26. The Vision Vol 2: Little Better Than a Beast by Tom King et. al.
27. Talking to Strangers: What we Should Know About the People we Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
28. Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
29. Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living by Elyakim Kislev
30. Ancestor Approved by Cynthia Leitich Smith
31. Star Trek: A Cultural History by M. Keith Booker
32. Summer by Ali Smith
33. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
34. The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
35. A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon
36. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
37. Slow Horses by Mick Herron
38. Birding is my Favorite Video Game by Rosemary Mosco
39. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
40. Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade
41. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
42. Scarlet Witch Vol 1: Witches' Road by Vanesa Del Rey
43. Dead Lions by Mick Herron
44. Beauty Sick by Teri Schnaubelt
45. In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire 
46. Back to the Future: Tales from the Time Train by Bob Gale et. al.
47. Back to the Future: Biff to the Future by Bob Gale et. al.
48. The List by Mick Herron
49. Real Tigers by Mick Herron
50. My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro 
51. The Trouble With Women by Jacky Fleming
52. Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
53. When Pigs Fly by Stephan Pastis
54. Spook Street by Mick Herron
55. Alena by Kim W. Andersson 
56. The Guncle by Steven Rowley 
57. Little Soldiers by Lenora Chu
58. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her own Making by Catherynne Valente
59. The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager
60. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 
61. The Nature of Life and Death by Patricia Wiltshire
62. The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness by Ella Berthoud
63. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
64. Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal
65. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
66. Good Eggs by Rebecca Hardiman
67. The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World by Amanda Little
68. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
69. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
70. Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
71. This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
72. Star Trek Voyager: Seven's Reckoning by Dave Baker et. al.
73. Star Trek: Gold Key Archives Vol 1 by George Kashden et. al.
74. Star Trek Voyager: Encounters with the Unknown by Nathan Archer
75. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Too Long a Sacrifice by Scott Tipton et. al.
76. Star Trek: Voyager: Mirrors and Smoke by J.K. Woodward et. al.
77. Who Killed Captain Kirk? by Tom Sutton et. al.
78. Leonard McCoy, Frontier Doctor by John Byrne
79. Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Gorn Crisis by Kevin J. Anderson et. al.
80. Star Trek Classics Vol 2: Enemy Unseen by Tom Sniegoski et. al.
81. Star Trek: Hell's Mirror by J.M. DeMatteis et. al.
82. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through the Mirror by Scott Tipton et. al.
83. Star Trek Classics Vol 4: Beginnings by Mike Carlin et. al.
84. Star Trek: Burden of Knowledge by Federica Manfredi et. al.
85. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Intelligence Gathering by David Messina et. al.
86. Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War by Angel Hernandez et. al.
87. Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton
88. Death of a Cad by M.C. Beaton
89. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
90. The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
91. Star Trek: Alien Spotlight - Romulans by John Byrne
92. Star Trek: The Q Conflict by David Messina et. al.
93. Star Trek Archives Vol 1: Best of Peter David by Bill Mumy et. al.
94. Star Trek: Romulans - The Hollow Crown #2 by John Byrne
95. Star Trek: Romulans - The Hollow Crown #1 by John Byrne
96. Star Trek: The Classic Episodes by James Blish
97. The Autobiography of Mr. Spock by David A. Goodman
98. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Quifan
99. How Y'all Doing? by Leslie Jordan
100. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre
101. Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events by Brent Spiner
102. A Will to Kill by R.V. Raman
103. The Boys by Ron & Clint Howard
104. Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford
105. Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines by John Barber et. al.
106. Back to the Future: Hard Time by John Barber et. al.
107. Back to the Future: Citizen Brown by Bob Gale et. al.
108. Back to the Future: Who is Marty McFly? by John Barber et. al.
109. DeadEndia: The Watcher's Test by Hamish Steele
110. Back to the Future: Time Served by John Barber et. al.
111. Back to the Future: Continuum Conundrum by John Barber et. al.

And the reread books:

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams 
3. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
5. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
7. The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

That brings our total count to: 118 books including rereads. 

**If you're interested in buying any of these books or any books really, you can click here. This will re-direct you to AbeBooks which is a site I use all of the time to find used books at an excellent price. A lot of the time I don't even pay for shipping! Full disclosure: I will receive a commission on all sales made through this link. You will not be charged anything additional for my commission. I wouldn't recommend a site that I didn't use and you are under no obligation to purchase anything. :-) **

2020 Book Roundup

I'm back, baby! I took a very extended leave of absence last year for reasons which I think need no real explaining. It was a stressful year for everyone and for me the added stress of trying to stay on top of all of the reviews I was meant to write became more burdensome than enjoyable so I took a break. 😊 So with that being said, I've decided that going forward I won't be trying to play catch up. I'll be reviewing in real-time which might mean more than one book per post or it might mean more than one post a week. I haven't decided if I'm going to stick with a Friday posting schedule or not because my work life is a bit chaotic at the moment and I don't want to commit too early and have to renege. You can either sign up to be notified when I post through Blogger or you can follow me on Twitter to know exactly when I've posted. 

Okay enough of this intro let's get on to the books I read in 2020! Spoiler alert: It was a LOT and all of the trackers I use had different final counts so I'm definitely missing a few titles. (They're most likely comics as I went on a bit of a spree and just enjoyed myself without noting anything down.) 😬 [A/N: I'm going to try to post separately about the books that I DNF'd (Did Not Finish) last year but that will most likely be up late this month as I like to write little paragraphs about why I didn't finish them which takes me ages to write up.]

1. Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness
2. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
3. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers by Fred Rogers & Luke Flowers
4. The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem (one of my faves of the year)
5. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
6. Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem
7. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
8. And be a Villain by Rex Stout
9. Homicide Trinity by Rex Stout
10. The Black Mountain by Rex Stout
11. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes (one of my faves of the year - I honestly can't believe I read this just last year)
12. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa & translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder
13. Book Love by Debbie Tung (one of my faves of the year - bought all of her other books)
14. And Four to Go by Rex Stout
15. Do You Mind if I Cancel by Gary Janetti
16. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (one of my faves of the year - bought the entire series)
17. Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks 
18. Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout
19. Quiet Girl in a Noisy World by Debbie Tung
20. Caging Skies by Christine Leunens
21. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (one of my faves of the year)
22. Before Midnight by Rex Stout
23. Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire (loved it as much as the 1st in the series)
24. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (one of my faves of the year - read the week before NYC went into lockdown)
25. The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge & illustrated by Chris Riddell
26. Dry Store Room No. 1 by Richard Fortey
27. Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads by Stephen T. Asma
28. In Real Life by Cory Doctorow & illustrated by Jen Wang
29. Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
30. So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (one of my faves of the year)
31. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman (one of my faves of the year - ordered her other book about the Tudor period)
32. The Art of the English Murder by Lucy Worsley (one of my faves of the year)
33. Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
34. The Complete Mapp and Lucia: Volume 1 by E.F. Benson 
35. Department of Mind-Blowing Theories by Tom Gauld
36. The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change edited by David Reminck & Henry Finder
37. Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth & Sara Lautman
38. The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
39. The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
40. Sanctuary by V.V. James
41. The Last Stargazers by Emily M. Levesque
42. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
43. White Kids by Margaret A. Hagerman
44. Small Doses by Amanda Seales
45. Making Sense by Sam Harris
46. Fossil Men by Kermit Pattison
47. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (one of my faves of the year)
48. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
49. Stargazing by Jen Wang
50. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
51. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
52. Vampires Never Get Old by multiple authors
53. The Shadows by Alex North (one of my faves of the year)
54. Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood by Trixie Mattel & Katya Zamolodchikova
55. Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library by Joyce Saricks
56. The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz
57. The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown (one of my faves of the year)
58. The Helpline by Katherine Collette
59. Operation Frog Effect by Sarah Scheerger (one of my faves of the year)
60. Go With the Flow by Lily Williams & Karen Schneermann
61. The Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate my Father by Roy Lewis
62. Dog Man Unleashed by Dav Pilkey
63. Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
64. The Class by Frances O'Roark Dowell
65. Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Vulcan by Dayton Ward (one of my faves of the year)
66. Dr. Mutter's Marvels by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (one of my faves of the year)
67. Redshirts by John Scalzi
68. The Booktalker's Bible by Chappie Langemack
69. Watching the English by Kate Fox
70. Hidden Universe Travel Guides: The Klingon Empire by Dayton Ward (loved this one also)
71. The Power of Onlyness by Nilofer Merchant
72. Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King by William Joyce
73. The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
74. The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner
75. E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core by William Joyce
76. Toothiana: Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies by William Joyce
77. The Sandman and the War of Dreams by William Joyce
78. Jack Frost: The End Becomes the Beginning by William Joyce
79. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (one of my faves of the year)
80. The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall-Smith (one of my faves of the year)
81. The Talented Mr. Varg by Alexander McCall-Smith
82. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (one of my faves of the year)
83. Librarian Tales by William Ottens
84. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (one of my faves of the year)
85. The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson (one of my fave series of the year)
86. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
87. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall-Smith
88. The Island by Ragnar Jonasson
89. The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists by Alexander McCall-Smith
90. Bambert's Book of Missing Stories by Reinhardt Jung
91. The Mist by Ragnar Jonasson
92. Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones (one of my faves of the year)
93. Bowie's Bookshelf by John O'Connell
94. The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Volume One by Dorothy L. Sayers
95. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
96. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider (loved this so much I bought his other book)
97. The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
98. Daphne and Velma: The Vanishing Girl by Josephine Ruby (SO good that I ordered the other 2)
99. The Shape of Ideas by Grant Snider
100. Winter by Ali Smith
101. Daphne and Velma: The Dark Deception by Morgan Baden
102. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
103. Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom (one of my faves of the year)
104. Earthlings by Sayaka Murata & translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapely Takemori
105. Frontier Grit by Marianne Monson
106. Against Civility by Alex Zamalin
107. Fangs by Sarah Andersen (one of my faves of the year)
108. Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce (ended the year on a high with this one)
109. Archie Volumes 1-6
110. Afterlife with Archie Volume 1
111. Jughead Volumes 1-3
112. Jughead: The Hunger Volumes 1-3
113. Jughead: The Hunger vs. Vampironica Volume 1
114. Jughead's Time Police Volume 1
115. Vampironica Volume 1
116. Vampironica: New Blood Volume 1
117. Blossoms: 666 Volume 1
118. Star Trek: Year Five Volumes 1-2
119. Star Trek Volumes 1-13
120. Star Trek: TNG: Mirror Broken Issues 1-4
121. Star Trek: Boldly Go Volumes 1-3
122. Star Trek: Waypoint Volume 1
123. Star Trek: Alien Spotlight Volumes 1-2
124. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Volume 1
125. Star Trek: Countdown Issues 1-4
126. Star Trek: Manifest Destiny Volume 1
127. Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness Volume 1
128. Star Trek: Spock Reflections Volume 1
129. Castle Waiting Volume 1
130. Back to the Future Volumes 1-3

And the reread books:

1. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

That brings our total count to: 164 books. (I counted each individual issue and/or volume of the comics I read or at least the ones I can remember.) So there's the rundown of everything that I read over the course of last year. Happy New Year!!

**If you're interested in buying any of these books or any books really, you can click here. This will re-direct you to AbeBooks which is a site I use all of the time to find used books at an excellent price. A lot of the time I don't even pay for shipping! Full disclosure: I will receive a commission on all sales made through this link. You will not be charged anything additional for my commission. I wouldn't recommend a site that I didn't use and you are under no obligation to purchase anything. :-) **

2019 Book Roundup

Hi there, friends! It's time to put together the list of the books that I read in 2019. I really thought I would break the cycle and get all of my reviews finished before the end of the year but I didn't take into account how much busier my new branch was going to be. [Spoiler alert: It's super busy and my reading really reflects that.] Once again, I'm going to list out the rereads and I'll try to get another post out about the books that I did not finish (DNF) of which there are quite a few (if I can remember their titles). Without further ado, here's the list!

1. My Side of the Mountain
2. Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye
3. The Library Book
4. Warren the 13th and the Whispering Woods
5. Elfquest Archives: Volume 3
6. Strange Magic
7. The Thirteenth Tale
8. I'll Be Gone in the Dark
9. New Kid
10. Remember, Remember
11. Notes from a Small Island
12. HiLo Book 5: Then Everything Went Wrong
13. Once Upon a River
14. Elfquest Archives: Volume 4
15. Three Things About Elsie
16. Adulthood is a Myth
17. Big Mushy Happy Lump
18. Herding Cats
19. Excellent Books for Early and Eager Readers
20. The Dreamers
21. Dread Nation
22. The Saturdays
23. Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy
24. Lumberjanes: Friendship to the Max
25. Lumberjanes: A Terrible Plan
26. Lumberjanes: Out of Time
27. Lumberjanes: Band Together
28. Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie
29. The Doll People
30. Redwall
31. Born to be Posthumous
32. Toys Go Out
33. Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems
34. Locomotive
35. Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder
36. The Right Word
37. The Birthday Ball
38. The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
39. Amphigorey
40. Amphigorey Again
41. Amphigorey Too
42. Ready Player One
43. A Discovery of Witches
44. Strange Sight
45. The Hidden Witch
46. The Witch Boy
47. Our Uninvited Guests
48. Stranger in the House
49. When the Children Came Home
50. Jambusters
51. The Gods Themselves
52. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
53. Cool Japan Guide
54. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
55. The Star Diaries
56. So You Want to Talk About Race 
57. The Invited 
58. 5 Worlds Book 3: The Red Maze 
59. Solaris 
60. Exhalation 
61. Will my Cat Eat my Eyeballs?
62. Disappearing Earth 
63. The Hunting Party
64. We Were Killers Once 
65. The Poet and the Vampyre
66. It Takes One
67. The 7th Victim
68. When Life Gives you Pears (review pending)
69. Kindness and Wonder (review pending)
70. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (review pending)
71. The Toll (review pending)
72. The Ride of a Lifetime (review pending)
73. Miss D & Me (review pending)
74. Fair Play (review pending)
75. Inside Out (review pending)
76. Cat Diary: Yon & Muu (review pending)
77. When I Arrived at the Castle (no review - I just didn't like it)
78. Cicada (no review - not my favorite by Tan)

And the reread books:

1. 84, Charing Cross Road
2. The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

That brings our total count to: 79 books.

I've once again included the links for the reviews of each of the titles but you can always use the search feature to look up any genre, subject, etc. to find your next book to kick off 2020. :-) Happy New Year!!

**If you're interested in buying any of these books or any books really, you can click here or here. The first will re-direct you to AbeBooks and the second will re-direct you to The Book Depository. These are great websites for purchasing books. Full disclosure: I will receive a commission on all sales made by following either of these links. I wouldn't recommend a site that I didn't use and you are under no obligation to purchase anything. :-) **

2018 Book Roundup

Another year has gone by and it's now time to compile the list of books that I read in 2018. Like last year, some of these books haven't been reviewed yet so you'll need to keep an eye on the blog to see what I thought of them. I'm including rereads in my count once again because I want to be able to keep a running record (digitally) of everything I've read in a given year. Here we go!

1. Einstein's Dreams
2. The Killings at Badger's Drift
3. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
4. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers (longest read of the year)
5. Quackery
6. HiLo 4: Waking the Monsters
7. Norse Mythology
8. Rest in Pieces (one of my faves of 2018)
9. I've Got This Round
10. The Last Black Unicorn
11. Gorillas in the Mist
12. Citizen: An American Lyric
13. From Here to Eternity
14. Ghostland
15. Fly on the Wall
16. How to Love the Empty Air (one of my faves of 2018)
17. The Murderer's Ape
18. Golda Meir: A Strong, Determined Leader
19. Yes Please (one of my faves of 2018 and best audiobook I've ever read)
20. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (one of my faves of 2018)
21. Grace & Style 
22. Death of a Hollow Man
23. Ghostbusters (movie tie-in)
24. The World According to Mister Rogers
25. Tiny Beautiful Things
26. The American Way of Death Revisited (loved it so much I bought my own copy)
27. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (one of my faves of 2018)
28. Short
29. The Royal Rabbits of London
30. Nnewts
31. Graveyeard Shakes
32. The Intuitionist (one of my faves of 2018 - Great American Read list)
33. The Bad Guys
34. The Read-Aloud Handbook (necessity for Children's Librarians)
35. The House with a Clock in Its Walls
36. The Outsider 
37. The Figure in the Shadows
38. The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring
39. One Step at a Time (picture book)
40. Invisible Man
41. Comics Squad: Recess
42. CatStronauts: Space Station Situation
43. Dear Madam President
44. Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary Ordinary Family
45. Recovery: Freedom from Addictions (one of my faves of 2018)
46. The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath
47. Unruly Places
48. When Breath Becomes Air
49. Being Mortal
50. The Science of Superheroes
51. Only Human
52. Founding Mothers
53. Mary B. (one of my faves of 2018)
54. The Ghost in the Mirror
55. So Close to Being the Sh*t, Ya'll Don't Even Know
56. CatStronauts: Robot Rescue (for some reason I didn't review this?!)
57. El Deafo
58. Cici's Journal: The Adventures of a Writer-In-Training
59. Sunny Side Up
60. 5 Worlds Book 1: The Sand Warrior
61. Tucker Grizzwell's Worst Week Ever
62. Peanuts: Volume Nine
63. Star Trek Destiny #1: Gods of Night
64. Robot Dreams
65. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Vol. 1
66. Star Trek Destiny #2: Mere Mortals
67. The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
68. 5 Worlds Book 2: The Cobalt Prince
69. Afterlife With Archie Vol. 1 
70. Star Trek Destiny #3: Lost Souls
71. Calypso
72. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing 
73. The Bear and the Nightingale
74. ElfQuest Archives: Volume One
75. The Compleet Molesworth 
76. Space Dumplins
77. Sanity & Tallulah
78. The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
79. The Science of Supervillains
80. ElfQuest Archives: Volume Two
81. Tales from the Inner City 
82. Dear Sister

And the reread books:

1. The Neverending Story (every year)
2. Pride & Prejudice (every year)

That brings our total count to: 84 books.

I decided to include the review links again (not sure why I keep torturing myself) for each of the titles but you can always use the search feature to look up any genre, subject, etc. to find your next book to kick off 2019. :-) Happy New Year!!

**If you're interested in buying any of these books or any books really, you can click here or here. The first will re-direct you to AbeBooks and the second will re-direct you to The Book Depository. These are great websites for purchasing books. Full disclosure: I will receive a commission on all sales made by following either of these links. I wouldn't recommend a site that I didn't use and you are under no obligation to purchase anything. :-) **

2017 Book Roundup

Another year has gone by and it's now time to compile the list of books that I read in 2017. Like last year, some of these books haven't been reviewed (yet in some cases and never in others) so you'll need to keep an eye on the blog to see what I thought of them. I'm going to do something slightly different this year. I've decided to include rereads in my count because I want to be able to keep a running record (digitally) of everything I've read in a given year. Here we go!

1. Ms. Bixby's Last Day
2. Have You Seen Elephant? (picture book - no review)
3. Duck, Duck, Dinosaur (picture book - no review)
4. Sidekicked
5. Vampire Academy
6. Dead Wake
7. Hark! A Vagrant
8. South Riding
9. Wonderful, Wicked, and Whizzpopping
10. The Burning World
11. Cry, Heart, But Never Break
12. The Dungeoneers
13. Frostbite
14. Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast
15. Henry & Leo
16. Frog on a Log?
17. The Last Shadow Gate
18. Terms & Conditions
19. I Work at a Public Library
20. A Freudian Slip is When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother
21. I Don't Want to be Big
22. The Unfinished World
23. Frindle
24. Waking Gods
25. I Don't Want to be a Frog
26. The Secrets of Gaslight Lane
27. Trio for Blunt Instruments
28. Lunch Witch: Knee-Deep in Niceness
29. The Grumpface
30. How to Build an Android
31. Fortunately, the Milk
32. The Shadow Land
33. Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat (for some reason I didn't review this?)
34. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
35. The House of Months and Years
36. The Wild Robot
37. Grandpa's Great Escape
38. The Deadly 7
39. The Phantom Tollbooth
40. Book Uncle and Me
41. Roller Girl
42. The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
43. The Marvels
44. Some Writer!
45. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
46. The Mysterious Benedict Society
47. Wildwood
48. The Cabinet of Curiosities
49. One Day We'll Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
50. Under Wildwood
51. Stories of Your Life and Others
52. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
53. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
54. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
55. The Book That Changed America
56. Wildwood Imperium
57. Comics Squad: Detention
58. Wonderstruck
59. The Imaginary
60. HiLo (graphic novels 1-3)
61. Ghost Waltz
62. Bluffton
63. The Storm in the Barn
64. The Red Badge of Courage
65. Science of the Magical
66. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
67. A Wrinkle in Time (reread)
68. A Wind in the Door 
69. A Swiftly Tilting Planet
70. Many Waters
71. Grendel
72. The Great Questions of Tomorrow
73. Find the Good
74. Thornhill
75. Woolly
76. everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too
77. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
78. Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
79. The Importance of Being Earnest
80. A Veil of Shadows
81. Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult 
82. The Goldfish Boy 
83. Close Enough to Touch
84. Deep Dark Fears
85. Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
86. The Unreal and the Real 
87. The People's Republic of Amnesia 
88. The Little Virtues
89. The Creeps
90. World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures 
91. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores
92. My Friend Dahmer
93. Scythe 
94. Mine Own Executioner

And the reread books:

1. The Rubber Band
2. The Red Box
3. Pride & Prejudice (every year)
4. Star Trek Into Darkness
5. Murder on the Orient Express
6. The Neverending Story (every year)

That brings our total count to: 100 books.

I decided to do as I did in 2015 and include the review links (not doing that again anytime in a hurry) for each of the titles but you can always use the search feature to look up any genre, subject, etc. to find your next book to kick off 2018. :-) Happy New Year!!

**If you're interested in buying any of these books or any books really, you can click here or here. The first will re-direct you to AbeBooks and the second will re-direct you to The Book Depository. These are great websites for purchasing books. Full disclosure: I will receive a commission on all sales made by following either of these links. I wouldn't recommend a site that I didn't use and you are under no obligation to purchase anything. :-) **

2016 Book Roundup

The following is a list of all of the books I read in 2016. It's double what I read last year but that makes sense as I doubled the amount of weekly posts I was doing. Also, you'll notice that some of these have no reviews. That is either because I decided not to review it (yet or maybe ever) or it's to be posted in the coming weeks. Once again, I didn't include rereads but if I had then you would see the entire Harry Potter series listed here. ;-) I mention this because in the future when I look back at this I can remember this was the year that I read all of those magical books and fell in love all over again. Now on to the main event!

1. After Alice
2. The 5th Wave
3. The Man in the High Castle
4. An Age of License: A Travelogue
5. My Ears Are Bent
6. My Life on the Road
7. Displacement: A Travelogue
8. We Were Liars
9. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
10. Cavendon Hall
11. A Day With Wilbur Robinson
12. The Cavendon Women
13. Left in the Wind
14. The Color Purple
15. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
16. In Our Own Image
17. The True Meaning of Smekday
18. Barbara Baker
19. Ian Pemberton
20. Verity Xuereb-Smith
21. The Hunt for Vulcan
22. SuperMutant Magic Academy
23. Me Before You
24. This One Summer
25. Baggage
26. Skim
27. Turik and the Lost Woman
28. The Last Days of Magic
29. Journey to Death
30. Beware of the Dog
31. Stitches
32. Pebble in the Sky
33. All About Love: New Visions
34. The Painter of Souls
35. The Reproductive System: A science fiction novel
36. My Family and Other Animals
37. Arcadia
38. The Mind Club
39. Another
40. Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
41. Attack on Titan Vol. 1
42. Sleeping Giants
43. The Currents of Space
44. The Library at Mount Char
45. Seconds
46. Soppy
47. Bad Feminist
48. Fall of Man in Wilmslow
49. Star Wars: Bloodline
50. Nimona
51. French Milk
52. Arkwright
53. Blankets
54. The Argonauts
55. How to Be a Woman
56. The Twits
57. The Magic Finger
58. John Le Carré: The Biography
59. The Great Mouse Plot
60. The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
61. The Minpins
62. Theory of Irony
63. Alien Next Door
64. Pieces Like Pottery
65. The Mudfog Papers
66. Wandering Son: Volume One
67. Choices
68. The Complete Persepolis
69. The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
70. A Dead Djinn in Cairo
71. Proust: The Search
72. Ten Days in a Mad-House
73. The Fin
74. Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
75. The Tumbling Turner Sisters
76. Everything Is Teeth
77. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
78. Captain to Captain
79. Infinity's Prism
80. Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night
81. Best Defense
82. Heap House
83. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (no review)
84. Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil
85. Foulsham
86. Lungdon
87. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
88. Star Trek: First Contact
89. Short Stories From Hogwarts: Power, Politics, and Pesky Poltergeists
90. Short Stories From Hogwarts: Heroism, Hardship, and Dangerous Hobbies
91. Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide
92. Purgatory's Key
93. Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Evil
94. The Book With No Pictures
95. Its a Tiger!
96. Dragons Love Tacos
97. Tales from Outer Suburbia
98. The Gargoyle
99. Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation
100. The Library
101. Wonder Women
102. The Bird King: An Artist's Notebook
103. The Arrival
104. Echoes and Refractions
105. Shattered Light
106. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
107. The Mangle Street Murders
108. Rivers of London
109. Penguin Problems
110. The Singing Bones
111. The Lair of the White Worm
112. The Lady of the Shroud
113. Three Shadows
114. 84, Charing Cross Road
115. Lost & Found
116. Rules of Summer
117. The Curse of the House of Foskett
118. A Man Called Ove
119. Furiously Happy
120. Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I don't)
121. Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon 
122. Giant Squid
123. The Princess Diarist
124. Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse 
125. Moletown 
126. The Secret Subway 
127. Finding Winnie 
128. Death Descends on Saturn Villa 

Last year I took an inordinate amount of time including all of the review links in my roundup. I debated on whether or not I should do it again this year. I ultimately decided not to as you guys can simply utilize the search feature by using the titles to find the reviews (that's why I include such detailed tags after all). If nothing else, you can explore that feature by using other search terms to find your next read. :-)

**If you're interested in buying any of these books or any books really, you can click here or here. The first will re-direct you to AbeBooks and the second will re-direct you to The Book Depository. These are great websites for purchasing books. Full disclosure: I will receive a commission on all sales made by following either of these links. I wouldn't recommend a site that I didn't use and you are under no obligation to purchase anything. :-) **

2015 Book Roundup

Here we are again at the start of a new year and the list of all the books that I read over the course of 2015 is ready to be compiled. I'm not including rereads (although maybe I should...what do you think?) but I am including a book that I didn't finish because I spent Time on it (the capitalization is needed because I'm still mad about it). I'm also going to do something a little different from the previous two years. I'm including links to all of the reviews so if you missed it you can check it out again or maybe you're new here (hi there!) and looking for your next read. :-)

1. Insurgent 
2. Allegiant
3. Four
4. The Lady and Her Monsters
5. Let the Right One In
6. Seriously...I'm Kidding
7. Hallowe'en Party
8. The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook
9. The Magicians (60% completed)
10. The One and Only Ivan
11. The Once and Future King
12. The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
13. The Iron Giant
14. The Secret Keeper
15. Dorothy Must Die
16. The Inheritance
17. Lincoln's Secret Spy
18. The Lost World of the Old Ones
19. The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
20. The Martian
21. Cinder
22. The Witch Must Burn
23. Momo
24. The 4% Universe
25. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
26. No Place Like Oz
27. The Wizard Returns
28. Feed
29. The Historian
30. Scarlet
31. A Buzz in the Meadow
32. The Great Fire
33. You Deserve a Drink
34. The Thurber Carnival
35. Manhattan Mayhem
36. Paper Towns
37. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
38. Cress
39. Mere and Moorland: The Northern Counties
40. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
41. To Hear the Ocean Sigh
42. Fairest: Levana's Story
43. Life With a Sprinkle of Glitter
44. The Secret Garden
45. Pollyanna
46. The Rescuers
47. The Borrowers
48. Cocaine Blues
49. Death Times Three
50. The World Without Us
51. Raisins and Almonds
52. The Amazing Book is Not on Fire
53. The 40s: The Story of a Decade
54. Through the Woods
55. Our Kiss
56. Peter Pan
57. Before Tomorrowland
58. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
59. The Witches: Salem, 1692
60. The Opposite of Loneliness
61. Winter
62. Welcome to Night Vale
63. Heart of Tin
64. Sophie's World
65. Survivors: Secrets
66. The Straw King

So that was all of the books that I read this year (excluding rereads). I had a reading goal of 75 books which I didn't quite make but I'm happy with what I read nonetheless. ;-) (The next time I have the bright idea of hyperlinking that many books someone please remind me how much of a pain it was.)

**If you're interested in buying any of these books or any books really, you can click here or here. The first will re-direct you to AbeBooks and the second will re-direct you to The Book Depository. These are great websites for purchasing books. Full disclosure: I will receive a commission on all sales made by following either of these links. I wouldn't recommend a site that I didn't use and you are under no obligation to purchase anything. :-) **

2014 Book Roundup

It's that time again! I had a secret goal to read at least 50 books this year. I think I did alright. ;-)

1. In the Shadow of Man
2. Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos
3. Out of the Silent Planet
4. Perelandra
5. The Rubber Band
6. The Red Box
7. #zombie
8. Hollow City
9. The Spy
10. How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity
11. William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back
12. The Last Policeman
13. Countdown City
14. Devil's Acre: A Russian Novel
15. That Hideous Strength
16. I Am Scout
17. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
18. The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
19. D is for Dahl
20. Doctor Who: Nightshade
21. Danny, The Champion of the World
22. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
23. The Gospel According to Dr. Seuss
24. Room
25. Death Comes to Pemberley
26. Below Stairs
27. World of Trouble
28. Mary Poppins
29. Eaarth
30. Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age
31. Booky Wook 2
32. Dune
33. The House of Special Purpose
34. Brida
35. In the Garden of Beasts
36. The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty
37. Curse of the Narrows
38. Horrorstor
39. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
40. The Imperfectionists
41. The Bees
42. The Orphan Master's Son
43. Doctor Who: Enemies of War
44. Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror
45. Doctor Who: The Blood Cell
46. Doctor Who: Silhouette
47. Star Trek Into Darkness
48. The Removers
49. Operation Mincemeat
50. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
51. The Adventures of Ben Gunn
52. Bridget Jones's Diary
53. The Clocks
54. Wasps' Nest
55. The Sherlock Holmes Handbook
56. Lily Dale: The Town That Talks to the Dead
57. Revolution
58. Girl Online
59. Divergent
60. Lights Out

2013 Book Roundup!!

So I'm the kind of nerd that keeps a running tally of the books I've read on a yearly basis. I thought I'd just list them here for kicks and giggles. :-)

1. A Wrinkle In Time (graphic novel adaptation)
2. The Ever-After Bird
3. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
4. The Fault in Our Stars
5. The Meaning of Night: A Confession
6. Where the Heart Is
7. Warm Bodies
8. The New Hunger
9. The Best Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
10. Twelve Years a Slave
11. The Why of Things
12. Jack the Ripper: The Facts
13. Prisoner's Base
14. Ender's Game
15. Moll Flanders
16. Edge
17. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
18. Countdown
19. The Troop
20. All Our Yesterdays
21. Sky Jumpers
22. My Brief History
23. Our Final Invention
24. Blood Work
25. The Land of Laughs
26. The Alice Behind Wonderland
27. Winnie-the-Pooh
28. Beautiful Creatures
29. My Booky Wook
30. Treasure Island

I didn't start off the year with a specific goal of how many books that I wanted to read so I'm not terribly disappointed. However, I hope to do better in 2014. :-)

And with that being said, I'm going to finish this up so that I can type up my latest review!